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"If we really understood the Mass, we would die of joy." (Saint John Vianney)
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Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Synodical secrecy (2) ("...ENDNOTE On June 25, 1529, an earlier generation of English bishops, in an exercise of what we might nowadays call Collegiality, was gathered together in court, and a document was read out indicating the adherence of each of them to Henry Tudor's fairly novel conviction that his marriage to Queen Catharine was null and void. All was going so well ... but then the Primate Archbishop Warham reached and read out the name of the Bishop of Rochester. The learned, saintly, and austere figure of John Fisher stood up and testified "That is not my hand or seal"... Warham had, one might suspect, forged the adherence of Fisher in a kindly gesture designed to let him off the hook without too much violence to his conscience. But Collegiality or no Collegiality, King Henry or no King Henry, S John Fisher knew his duty qua bishop. "That is not my hand or seal". Ultimately, he was to die because of his open and public witness (seven or eight books of it) to what the tradita per Apostolos revelatio seu fidei depositum taught (and still teaches today) about the Indissolubility of Marriage...He was prepared, with very great parrhesia, to put his name to that teaching, and to do so in public.")

I am again pleased to list ALL Traditional Latin Masses or Traditional Liturgies within the general DC "Metroplex" for Holy Week and for Easter Sunday here. I will also be happy to link to sites that "aggregate Easter" TLMs or Holy Week Schedules in other regions besides the United States East Coast. PLEASE populate this calendar!To suggest a Mass, an aggregate Link or a Liturgy kindly leave a note in the combox or email me at: aquinasfan "AT" fastmail "DOT" comPlease bookmark this page as updates will be constant over the next several weeks.